Paulo Furtado (born 9 September 1970) is a Portuguese singer-songwriter who performs under the stage name The Legendary Tigerman. Furtado started his music career in the lates 1980s when he joined the

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band Tédio Boys. After leaving Tédio Boys, Furtado founded in 2000 the

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band Wraygunn. In 2002, he began releasing solo music under the alias The Legendary Tigerman. The Legendary Tigerman started out as a

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project, where Furtado would accompany his singing with

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and

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alone on stage. Since 2014, Furtado also plays with a backing band. The Legendary Tigerman has released 7 studio albums to date.

Biography

Furtado was born in

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, where he lived until he was one year old. He then moved to

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with his parents. Later, he enrolled at Lisbon University to study Human Movement Science but dropped out after three days, considering the studies pointless. He then focused a lot on surfing, becoming a local body board hero. Furtado's musical career began in the late 1980s as the lead guitarist and songwriter in the Portuguese

band Tédio Boys. The group released three albums during the 1990s and embarked on a U.S. tour. In 1999, after leaving Tédio Boys, Furtado founded the

-based

outfit Wraygunn, in which he plays lead guitar and sings alongside Raquel Ralha. The band has released five albums. During this period, Furtado began a solo career as The Legendary Tigerman. He released his first album, '' Naked Blues'', on the Subotnick Enterprises label in 2001. While working with Subotnick Enterprises, he released the follow-up, '' Fuck Christmas, I Got the Blues'' (2003) and the remix compilation ''

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'' (2004). Switching to Rastilho Records, he produced '' Masquerade'' in 2006, which won him critical acclaim. In 2009 he joined

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on a successful tour. Following this, he switched to EMI to produce his fifth solo album, '' Femina'', which featured collaborations with female singers and became one of the top 5 albums on the Portuguese charts. In 2009 he released FEMINA, a record about women, with special guests such as

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, Lisa Kekaula, Becky Lee, Phoebe Killdeer,

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. A year later the record went Platinum in Portugal and won Record of the Year for newspapers and magazines like

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, among many others.

Discography

He has released 7 albums: * 2002: '' Naked Blues'' – Subotnick Enterprises * 2003: '' Fuck Christmas, I Got the Blues'' – Subotnick Enterprises * 2004: ''

'' – Subotnick Enterprises * 2006: '' Masquerade'' – Nortesul/BMG * 2009: '' Femina'' – Metrodiscos * 2014: ''

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'' – Metropolitana/Sony Music Portugal * 2018: '' Misfit'' – Metropolitana/Sony Music Portugal

References

External links

Official website
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